Jon Cooper

Published:17:32Thursday 22 November 2018

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A masked woman who made off with a Chinese takeaway driver’s food delivery without paying has been placed on a 12 month community order.

Chesterfield magistrates’ court heard on November 20 how Anne Marie Mettam, 34, of Newbold Road, Newbold, Chesterfield, persuaded the delivery driver to let her go to a cash machine before she grabbed the Chinese meal without paying and fled.

Prosecuting solicitor Becky Allsop said: “A delivery driver for a Chinese takeaway took an order to Holme Hall, pressed a buzzer and a female answered the door with a scarf around her face and she asked a male about money for the meal.

“She asked if she could go to a bank around the corner and the complainant agreed and drove to the cash machine.”

Mrs Allsop added that Mettam walked back from the cash machine to the car and grabbed the takeaway and pulled it with so much force some of the food fell to the ground before she ran away.

The delivery driver stated that she has been left frightened to do her job and she has told the takeaway business that she will not deliver to flats and she might stop the work altogether.